Adaptacija i njene iluzije: Don Quijote u filmovima Vlade Kristla i Alberta Serre

master's thesis

• Title (english): Adaptation and its Illusions: Don Quijote in the films of Vlado Kristl and Albert Serra
• Author: Bartol Babić Vukmir
• Mentor: Nikica Gilić (mentor)
• Committee member: Krunoslav Lučić (predsjednik povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Lovro Škopljanac (član povjerenstva)
• Granter: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; (Department of Comparative literature); Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2023-06-16, Croatia
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: HUMANISTIC SCIENCES; Art Sciences; Filmology

Abstract

Ovaj rad izlaže temeljitu analizu dvije filmske adaptacije Bistrog viteza Don Quijotea od Manche u režiji Vlade Kristla i Alberta Serre – Don Kihota i Viteške časti. Polazeći od usporedbe ovih filmova s drugim adaptacijama iz opusa njihovih autora, rad ukazuje na jedinstvene mogućnosti koje Cervantesov roman pruža svojim adaptatorima, a koje uvelike proizlaze iz toga što, kako je uočio André Bazin, Don Quijote nadilazi roman iz kojeg potječe. Don Kihot i Viteška čast stoga se odmiču od konkretnih zbivanja iz romana, postavljaju zvuk i sliku u prvi plan te njima promišljaju sam čin ekranizacije, odnosno njegovu artificijelnost. Animirani Don Kihot prikazuje Don Quijotea kao šuplju vodovodnu cijev (pokretni zvučni crtež) kako bi ukazala na njegovu rekonceptualizaciju u drugom mediju, ali i njegovu iskonsku šupljinu, dok se Viteška čast usredotočuje na tijelo glavnog glumca i kostimografiju kojom ga se pretvara u lik bez kojeg iluzija igranog filma ne bi postojala. Štoviše, oba filma također inzistiraju na odvojenosti slike i zvuka, putem čega na površinu izlaze presudne razlike između tretmana iluzije u književnosti i na filmu. Posljednja je dionica analize u oba slučaja posvećena citatima pomoću kojih Kristl i Serra svoje autorefleksivne filmove sukobljavaju s drugim autorefleksivnim umjetničkim djelima te izravno uspostavljaju intertekstualni dijalog ne samo s vlastitim književnim predloškom, već i drugim slikama.

Abstract (english)

This paper offers a thorough analysis of two film adaptations of Don Quixote - Don Quixote and Honor of the Knights -directed by Vlado Kristl and Albert Serra, respectively. After comparing these films with their authors' other film adaptations, the paper illustrates the unique possibilities which Cervantes' novel offers to those who chose to adapt it and which largely stem from the fact that, as André Bazin points out, Don Quixote transcends the novel itself. Thus, Don Quixote and Honor of the Knights abandon those events depicted in the novel - they foreground images and sounds in order to re-think the act of adaptation, its artificiality. Kristl's animated Don Quixote shows the titular protagonist as a hollow water pipe (a mobile sound drawing) so as to emphasize his re-conceptualization within a new medium, as well as his core emptiness, while Honor of the Knights focuses on the lead actor's body and the costume which turns him into the character without whom the fiction film's illusion would cease to exist. Moreover, both films insist on the keeping the sounds split from the images; in doing so, they point to crucial differences between how literature and cinema handle illusion. The last part of the analysis of each film is dedicated to the quotes and paraphrases through which Kristl and Serra bring their auto-reflexive films head to head with other auto-reflexive works of art, establishing an intertextual dialogue not only with their own literary source, but also with other images.

• Keywords: film; adaptacija; Don Quijote; Vlado Kristl; Albert Serra
• Keywords (english): film; adaptation; Don Quixote; Vlado Kristl; Albert Serra
• Language: croatian
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:825525
• Study programme: Title: Comparative Literature (double major); Study programme type: university; Study level: graduate; Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra komparativne književnosti (magistar/magistra komparativne književnosti)
• Type of resource: Text
• File origin: Born digital
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2023-06-20 11:48:54